Beaver Meadows Visitor Center

Historical marker location:

1000 US Highway 36, Estes Park, Colorado

( Marker can be reached from Moraine Avenue (U.S. 36) ¾ mile west of State Highway 66, on the left when traveling west.)

A Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. National Historic Landmark.

Colorado was originally part of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, but was separated and made into its own territory in 1861. It became a state in 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.